object-n; 5 Senses

Sense Number 1: a tangible, visible entity

Commentary: OBJECT[+entity][+tangible][+visible]

Examples:
The picture showed a white object against a black background.
Bob spotted a large metal object floating in the water.
The philosopher's long-winded musing about the dichotomy between subject and object in existence was both boring and incomprehensible to the students.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: an intention, goal, purpose

Commentary: OBJECT[+state][+goal]

Examples:
The object of the game is to checkmate your opponent's king.
The object of the president's trip was to secure a trade agreement with that nation.
There's no object to having the engagement party now that John and Mary broke up.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: the grammatical role of being acted upon

Commentary: OBJECT[+form][+linguistic][+constituent][+role][+acted_upon]

Examples:
In the sentence, "Tom ate the pie", 'pie' is the grammatical object.
In that language object is determined solely by word order, not by case marking.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 4: being the focus or target of an event

Commentary: OBJECT[+role][+event][+target][+focus]

Examples:
The senator's wife has been the object of attention in recent weeks.
Sally is the object of Pete's desire.
The dog was the object of the girl's affections.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 5: data structure in a high-level programming language

Commentary: OBJECT[+form][+data_structure][+of_language][+programming][+high_level]

Examples:
The objects in Smalltalk have methods which describe the behaviors of those objects.
John hated writing assembly code after working with objects and flavors in Lisp.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1